A rare “ice spike” in the form of a natural crystal bowl has been found in a back garden in Scotland

During this weeks cold snap water froze in a bucket of water in her back garden and pushed up the ice to form a stunning crystal bowl like creation.

She said: “The top two inches of the bucket froze and this creation popped up in the middle,I have never seen it anything like it.”

An ice spike is an ice formation, often in the shape of an inverted icicle, that projects upwards from the surface of a body of frozen water ,they form as a result of the way water freezes, from the outside in.

As the ‘skin’ of the ice thickens, liquid water remains in the middle and if a weakness or hole appears in the ice skin, liquid water gets squeezed up through the hole resulting in a spike or unusual frozen shape.

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Christopher Nash took a picture of one which had formed in his garden when the weather was a bit milder.

The cold weather is set to continue this evening with the Met Office saying today will continue to be “particularly cold” in England with snow showers likely – although it’s set to warm up slightly next week.

Met Office forecaster Sophie Yeomans said temperatures could dip to -10 in some mountainous areas of Scotland tonight.

She added: “The very lowest that we could see – and that’s up Scotland and the mountains up there – we are looking at minus 6C, minus 8C, (21-18F) so pretty cold, but I think pretty widespread across most of the UK we are going to see temperatures dipping below zero.

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